The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-06
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
What the Newspapers Say of All Sorts Of
People-Personal Paragraphs.

What the Newspapers Say of All Sorts Of
People-Personal Paragraphs.
Miss Surpluss is the name of the treas
urer of temperance club in Boston.
Mr.. Gladstone has agreed to drive the
first pile of a bridge across the Dee.
The Persian who started to walk from
Teheran to Paris has arrived in Moscow.
Alphonse Daudet has suffered for ten
years from sleeplessness and is greatly
prostrated.
1t is rumored that Prince Ferdinand,
before going to Bulgaria, insured his life
for 100000 florins.
| Queen Victoria is said to be contem-
plating the publication of novel which
she wrote many years ago.
Lord Doneraile was not the first British
peer to die of hydrophobia. The Duke of
Richmond also died of the same disease.
Gen. Albert Pike is very fond of birds
and has in his study dozens of them in
cages; mocking birds, canAries, robins,
bluebirds and others.
The empress of Japan, who is thinking
of visiting this country in October, will
travel incognito, and her suite will in
clude two of the imperial princes.
Gen. Imboden, of Confederate cavalry
fame, recently stated, in letter, that if
Virginia's mineral wealth had been as
fully developed in 1860 as now there
would have been no war.
| MILFORD Woodruff, the new head of
the Mormon church, is so years of age,
and has always been man of mediocre
ability. He has been in hiding two
years, and is still out of sight to all save
the faithful.
| Ward Beecher ex-senator Bruce, the
colored orator of Mississippi, entered the
lecture field one year ago, and SO con-
genial did he find the work that he has
been lecturing ever since. His success
has been all that he and his friends could
have desired.
The Duchess of Cleveland has set the
fashion of riding in the Row with para
sol. Of course, this requires perfectly
trained horse. The Empress of Austria
never went out hunting without her fan,
thC Ollly bllllS octuiSu otIdllHc W
English eyes in very perfect costume
and ''get up.'
A son of Gen. Belknap some years ago
wanted to secure clerkship in one of
the departments at Washington, but his
father dissuaded him and advised him to
undertake any other employment that
was honorable. The young man secured
job as railroad brakeman and stuck to
it. Now he is assistant superintendent
of the road.
The ameer of Afghanistan is not a de-
sirable patient, if a story in an Indian
journal may be trusted. Lately he was
very i'll with boil on the back of his
neck, and his doctor prescribed some
lotion to bring the boil to head. Natu-
rally the pain was temporarily increased,
and Abdurrahman was SO enraged with
his doctor that he sent for him the first
thing in the morning and had him be-
headed on the spot.
Mr.. Whistler is sketching the pictur-
esque retreats of poverty to complete his
series of pictures of London life intended
for exhibition in America. Artists, like
authors, make their notes from all
phases of life. From the purlieus of
Cloth Fair to the gorgeousness of naval
review before the queen is but step.
He was one of the guests aboard the
Victoria, and made rapid sketches of the
fleet in water cOlOrs.
An American girl, daughter of Ogden
Bradley, of New York, and niece Of
Bishop Neely, of Maine, has won a
diploma from the famous Paris School OF
Medicine, passing brilliant examina-
ton and receiving the maximum mark.
Her thesis was 'Iodism,' and for az
hour and half she was shrewdly and
ably questioned by four of the leading
professors of the school, each of whom
had been provided with a cqay of the
thesis. In the black gown and white
fchu, prescribed for candidates, she re-
minded the audience of Portia in tho
trial scene of the Merchant of Venice. >
DIR. Mary Taylor Bissell, sister of tn,
, president of Vassar, who is in charge d
, the girls gymnasium in New York city
is interested in the project of a college o
physical training for girls. Whenevel
this college is ready to receive pupils
they will be measured ON entering, anC
dNoId,S gam VI IL luIiiCo dNoot tiis
, chest, inches about the waist, Is
inches about the arm and l inch abou
, the forearm is what is looked forward t.
!, as the desirable result of the first year,
!, bodily training and exercise of the typica
: Slim girl at II.
) Mrs. Julia Ward Howe spends th'
. greater part of the year at Oak Glen, he
{ country home, five miles out of Newport
Oak Glen owes its name to the cluster o
oak trees which makes the slope behinC
the house cool and shady in the hot SUM
l mer days. A little brook runs murmur
: Ing through their midst, and an old gra,
2 :uin of a stone mill stands ON the farthe
! side of the stream. Under these tree
l Mrs. Howe passes many hours with he
? books or writing beside her, and here sh
9 reads in the great book Of nature an,
I hears the wise talk of the singing birds
e with which the green branches are alive
Z These hours are the happiest in her bus,